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Ovarian cancer.

by: Bryan T. Hennessy, Robert L. Coleman, Maurie Markman
Lancet, Vol. 374, No. 9698. (17 October 2009), pp. 1371-1382, doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(09)61338-6  Key: citeulike:5872808

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The standard initial management of epithelial ovarian cancer consists of surgical staging, operative tumour debulking including total abdominal hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy, and administration of six cycles of intravenous chemotherapy with carboplatin and paclitaxel. Extensive and largely retrospective experience has shown that optimum surgical debulking to leave residual tumour deposits that are less than 1 cm in size is associated with improved patient outcomes. However, 75% of patients present with advanced (stage III or IV) disease and, although more than 80% of these women benefit from first-line therapy, tumour recurrence occurs in almost all these patients at a median of 15 months from diagnosis. Second-line treatments can improve survival and quality of life but are not curative. Advances in screening and understanding of molecular pathogenesis of ovarian cancer and development of novel targeted therapies (eg, bevacizumab) and practical intraperitoneal techniques for drug delivery are most likely to improve patient outcomes.


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